Tag: Agroforestry

Celebrating 15 years of bringing the food and farming movement together 4 – 5 January 2024 🌱In-person + worldwide livestream #ORFC24

Considering Implementing Agroforestry on Your Farm?  Join us to help test different forms of advice and guidance for Defra.

Farmers and growers please could you take 5 minutes to fill in a short and simple survey around tree planting on your land

ORC is currently looking for farmers or land manager in the Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area to take part in a survey for the EU-Horizon project AGROMIX.

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Join the Testing Agroforestry Advice and Guidance Scheme to help test different forms of advice and guidance for Defra. 

Come and join Biomass Connect with Newcastle University, supported by the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE) for an opportunity to learn about biomass crops options, agroforestry, and diversification options at Newcastle.

Wakelyns Agroforestry featured on BBC Countryfile on Sunday July 9th, with presenter Adam Henson interviewing David Wolfe

Read our 2023 Research Summary which outlines the 22 projects ORC worked on in 2021/22 advancing research and knowledge exchange in the organic and agroecological sector

The Irish Agroforestry Forum is bringing together a diversity of expert voices, both national and international, to discuss and highlight the multi-faceted benefits that trees can bring to farms and the wider environment.

Many congratulations to long-standing organic grower Iain Tolhurst who has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours list with the award of Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to agriculture.

AGROMIX project survey. Agroforestry experts needed to gather insights on climate change resilience in agroforestry systems.

This year’s Farm Woodland Forum face-to-face meeting will be held over 2 days in Co. Antrim, with theme of ‘Trees on stock farms for climate resilience’

SAVE THE DATE — OF&G National Organic Conference at Green Acres Farm in Shropshire – 4 JULY 2023

Join us at The Agroforestry Show with The Woodland Trust and the Soil Association! Interest in agroforestry is on the rise across UK farming and forestry, but it can be hard to know how to get started.

The Organic Research Centre and the EU Horizon Europe-funded REFOREST project are looking for agroforestry farmers and stakeholders to be part of the North of England Living Lab.

The Agroforestry Open Weekend is back in 2023 – May 19th to 21st – and it’s bigger than ever, with more than 35 farms taking part from the UK, Ireland and beyond!

Conversation Beneath The Trees is a podcast bringing together scientists, farmers and innovators from all around Ireland to share their ideas and experiences of farming with trees.

Join us for AGROMIX workshop on Agroforestry land use policies in England!

This Farm Wilder webinar looked at the many benefits trees can bring to livestock systems, with ORC’s Lindsay Whistance

Check out the Trees on Farms podcast mini series from Meet the Farmers – a weekly show that profiles people in the countryside and gives you an insight into food and farming.

Free webinar on Dec 14 at 7pm organised by Farm Wilder, with funding from Devon County Council, will be led by ORC’s Lindsay Whistance “who has been pivotal in generating the recent upsurge in interest around silvopasture.”

Mixedness from concepts to action: towards shared definitions and challenge identification at different levels

The Organic Research Centre and Agricology were partners in the Organic Growers Alliance’s recent Organic Matters conference held at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham on October 18th.